Sr. Staff Software Engineer – Linux Audio Software Technology
About The Position
Qualcomm is the leading provider of smartphone SoCs and software technology in the world. Our technology solutions bring function and high-speed wireless connectivity to mobile devices, powering the majority of smartphones around the globe. As part of the audio software global development team at Qualcomm, you will have the opportunity to work with an international team of hardware, systems, and software engineers to develop and integrate cutting edge audio technology on platforms powered by Qualcomm SoCs. Qualcomm SoCs provide integrated solutions for smart phone, computing, entertainment, automotive, connectivity, and IoT products worldwide. The Linux audio software team drives the feature design, development, integration, and commercialization of audio software and applications on Qualcomms Snapdragon processors. Seeking passionate, ambitious, and technically gifted software engineers for developing embedded audio and voice software for smart phones, smart speakers, smart assistants, smart media boxes, and a wide array of other smart devices for the mobile, compute, connectivity, automotive, and IoT product spaces. At the same time, you will have opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams and engage with community to deliver Linux ecosystem friendly audio solution featuring AudioReach™ as its foundation, onto Qualcomm Linux platforms. For additional information about AudioReach, visit github.com/audioreach. Please apply if interested and prepared for this exciting but challenging opportunity.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- 3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Nice To Haves
- 14+ years experience in embedded system development & debugging on ARM or other embedded system running Linux OS
- Experienced in C, C++, Python programming languages
- Audio Domain Knowledge with Android or Embedded Linux
- Experienced in system design fundamentals
- Solid knowledge of software design patterns and real-time, multi-threaded programming.
- Experienced in developing and debugging software on SoC with heterogenous CPU cores e.g ARM and other DSP architecture
- Understanding of power and performance considerations on embedded systems particularly with respect to ARM Linux and DSP platforms
- Experienced in both Linux userspace and kernel device driver development, debugging, upstreaming
- Experienced with multimedia framework especially audio focus ones such as Pipewire, ALSA, etc.
- Have general understanding in audio signal processing
- Experienced in audio usage models including playback, recording, voice activation, voice call, audio context detection
- Familiar with standard audio bus interfaces (I2S, TDM, SoundWire)
- Familiar with driver development for audio mixed signal peripherals (CODEC, speaker amp, digital microphone)
- Passionate contributor or maintainer of established open-source projects such as Gstreamer, PipeWire, ALSA, Linux, etc.
- Understand open-source community development, engagement, and upstreaming workflow
- Experienced in both open source & product commercialization process
Benefits
- competitive annual discretionary bonus program
- opportunity for annual RSU grants
- highly competitive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
